{"product_id":"cooper-king-red-wine-cask-bordeaux-single-malt-whisky","title":"Cooper King Red Wine Cask Bordeaux Single Malt English Whisky, 70cl","description":"\u003cp\u003eRed Wine Cask: Bordeaux is the Autumn 2026 release in Cooper King's Cask Series, the distillery's micro-batch whiskies built around specially selected casks. Four small 110-litre French oak casks were married for this bottling: three arrived wet, straight from Château Batailley in Bordeaux, and the fourth was a refill Merlot cask that had already held Cooper King whisky. The spirit spent its whole maturation in these casks, between four years and four years seven months, before being bottled at cask strength, 52.8% Alc., into 243 hand-filled, individually numbered bottles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn the nose there is spiced poached pear, cut flowers, raspberry coulis and white chocolate. The palate moves to dried fruit, bay leaf, baking spice and citrus zest, and the finish settles on caramel, rich malt and Battenberg cake. We think the fresh Bordeaux casks are behind the raspberry and the warm spice, while the refill Merlot cask holds back enough to let the malt come through.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe spirit is made from floor-malted English Maris Otter barley, fermented for six to seven days and double distilled in copper. It is non-chill filtered and natural in colour. At 52.8% Alc., add a splash of water; it opens up the poached pear and brings the raspberry forward.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn our view this is a whisky for drinkers who enjoy red wine cask character and want to taste the cask fully, rather than as a short finish. Small casks and a full term in wine-seasoned oak make for a bold, fruit-led single malt, and the distillery is unusually open about exactly which casks went in.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCooper King Distillery sits at Sutton-on-the-Forest, just north of York. Founders Abbie and Chris built it themselves after a backpacking trip through Tasmania introduced them to small, hands-on whisky distilleries, and the stills were first fired in 2018. Everything from mashing to bottling happens on site, the distillery runs on 100% renewable energy, and 1% of the sale of every bottle goes to the Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cooper King Distillery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56427271782785,"sku":"5060597650366","price":114.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0698\/3896\/2981\/files\/cooper-king-red-wine-cask-bordeaux-single-malt-english-whisky-70cl-whisky-cooper-king-distillery-digital-distiller-7116966.webp?v=1792622169","url":"https:\/\/www.digidistiller.com\/products\/cooper-king-red-wine-cask-bordeaux-single-malt-whisky","provider":"Digital Distiller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}